[Chicago-talk] Using a hash in a regex
Andy Lester
andy at petdance.com
Thu Jul 13 15:05:33 PDT 2006
On Jul 13, 2006, at 5:01 PM, Jay Strauss wrote:
> Duh... I'm officially stupid. What is the advantage of index() to
> regex?
Some people will point out that it's faster (or worse, "more
efficient") but that's infintessimal.
The key is that if you're not using the regex metacharacters, they
can't screw you up.
What if you have a category called "Income in $US"? If you match
that as /$str/, then you're matching /Income in $US/, and that will
never match because "$" means "end of line."
xoa
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